Zeno Of Elea Quotes

If i accede to zeno not even the one is left.

Zeno of elea quotes. The truth is that these writings of mine were meant to protect the arguments of parmenides against those who make fun of him and seek to show the many ridiculous and contradictory results which they suppose to follow from the affirmation of the one. In a race the quickest runner can never overtake the slowest since the pursuer must first reach the point whence the pursued started so that the slower must always hold a lead. Quote from zeno of elea. Plato also has zeno say that this work meant to protect the arguments of parmenides was written in zeno s youth stolen and published without his consent.

If i accede to parmenides there is nothing left but the one. If this assumption is not granted the conclusion will not follow. Well being is attained little by little and nevertheless is no little thing itself. Zeno of citium.

Nature hath given men one tongue but two ears that we may hear from others twice as much as we speak. Zeno s paradoxes have had a lasting impact through the attempts from aristotle down to the present day to respond to the problems they raise. If i accede to parmenides there is nothing left but the one. Zeno of elea quotes.

Progress wellbeing wisdom. Seneca the younger as quoted in zeno in the presocratics 1966 edited by philip wheelwright p. Zeno of elea quotes about zeno words. Plato has socrates paraphrase the first thesis of the first argument of zeno s work as follows.

Plato says that zeno s writings were brought to athens for the first time on the occasion of the visit of zeno and parmenides. If i accede to zeno not even the one is left. If being is many it must be both like and unlike and this is impossible for neither can the like be unlike. Aristotle physics 239b 14 6.

Zeno of elea quote. Zeno of elea quotes the third argument of motion is to the effect that the flying arrow is at rest which result follows from the assumption that time is composed of moments. My answer is addressed to the partisans of the many whose attack i return. The reason why we have two ears and only one mouth is that we may listen the more and talk the less.

Seneca the younger. As translated by benjamin jowett parmenides 1871.